Three-car accident injures HPD officer

HPD officer hospitalized after three-car accident

ZAIN SHAUK, HOUSTON CHRONICLE

Published 5:30 am, Sunday, July 10, 2011

An HPD officer was taken to the hospital after a three-car accident in the 3200 block of Yellowstone near the South Freeway late Sunday. A female police officer was responding to another incident when she proceeded through a red light on Yellowstone and was hit by a black Mercedes, HPD spokesman Victor Senties said. The driver of a third car was unable to swerve out of the way, witnesses said. The officer got out of her car to check on the condition of the other drivers, but then collapsed, said Quenton Utley, 20, who said he watched the incident from a nearby gas station. The officer and the drivers of the other two cars were taken to area hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries, Senties said. No other details were immediately available.